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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/socrate-et-ses-amis.html">Fable précédente</a></div>
<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 3, Fable 10</span><span class="fp-text">LA CRÉDULITÉ ET L'INCRÉDULITÉ</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber III, Fabula X</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">POETA DE CREDERE ET NON CREDERE</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">La crédulité et l'incrédulité sont également dangereuses.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Je vais en peu de mots montrer ces défauts.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Periculosum est credere et non credere.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Utriusque exemplum breviter exponam rei.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Hippolyte périt, parce qu'on crut sa belle-mère ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Troie succomba, parce qu'on ne crut point Cassandre.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Il faut donc chercher scrupuleusement la vérité,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ne point juger sottement et à tort.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Mais, laissant des traditions presque fabuleuses,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">je vais vous rapporter un fait de nos jours.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="Hyppolitus  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">Hippolytus</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Hippolytus  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Hyppolitus</span></span> <span class="fp-correction" title="obit  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">obiit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="obiit  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">obit</span></span>, quia novercae creditum est&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Cassandrae quia non creditum, ruit ilium.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ergo exploranda est veritas multum prius</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quam stulta prave judicet sententia.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Sed <span class="fp-correction" title="fabulosa  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">fabulosam</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="fabulosam  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">fabulosa</span></span> ne vetustatem <span class="fp-correction" title="levem  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">eleves</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="eleves  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">levem</span></span>,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">narrabo tibi memoria quod factum est mea.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un mari, qui chérissait tendrement sa femme,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">se disposait à faire prendre la robe virile à son fils.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Son affranchi, espérant se substituer à l'héritier légitime,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">tira son patron à l'écart,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">lui débita force calomnies sur son fils</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et sur la vertu de sa femme ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ajoutant, ce qu'il savait devoir affecter le plus un mari,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">qu'elle recevait un amant et que ce commerce honteux</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">déshonorait sa maison.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Plein de colère à ces récits mensongers,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">notre homme feint d'aller à la campagne,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais reste caché dans la ville. Dans la nuit,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il rentre précipitamment chez lui, et va droit à la chambre de sa femme.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">22&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">La mère avait fait coucher son fils près d'elle,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">23&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">pensant que cet âge adulte avait encore plus besoin de surveillance.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">24&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Tandis que l'on cherche de la lumière, que toute la maison est sur pied,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">25&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">le mari, qui ne peut comprimer l'élan de sa colère,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">26&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">approche du lit, et dans les ténèbres, sent une tête&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">27&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il touche des cheveux courts, et ne songeant qu'à son outrage,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">28&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">perce de sou glaive le corps de l'infortuné.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">29&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Les flambeaux arrivent, il reconnaît son fils</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">30&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">près de sa chaste épouse, qui, plongée dans le premier sommeil,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">31&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">n'avait rien entendu.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">32&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Le malheureux père vit la peine due à son crime</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">33&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et se précipita sur le fer dont l'avait armé sa crédulité.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">34&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Des accusateurs poursuivirent cette femme</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">35&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et la traînèrent à Rome devant les centumvirs.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">36&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">D'odieux soupçons accablent l'innocente,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">37&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">parce quelle va entrer en possession des biens. Les avocats</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">38&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">plaidèrent avec énergie la cause de l'innocence.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Maritus quidam, cum diligeret conjugem</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">togamque puram jam pararet <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n101/mode/1up">p.38</a>]</span> filio,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">seductus in secretum a liberto suo,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">sperante heredem <span class="fp-correction" title="sufficisse  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">suffici se</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="suffici se  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">sufficisse</span></span> proximum.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Qui dum de puero multa mentitus foret</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et plura de <span class="fp-correction" title="flagiciis  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">flagitiis</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="flagitiis  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">flagiciis</span></span> castae mulieris,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">adjecit id quod sentiebat maxime</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">doliturum amanti, ventitare adulterum</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">stuproque turpi pollui famam domus.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Incensus ille falso uxoris crimine</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">simulavit iter ad villam clamque in oppido</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">subsedit&nbsp;: deinde noctu subito januam</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">intravit, recta cubiculum uxoris petens,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">22&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">in quo dormire mater natum jusserat</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">23&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="etatem  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">aetatem</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="aetatem  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">etatem</span></span> adultam servans diligentius.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">24&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Dum <span class="fp-correction" title="querunt  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">quaerunt</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quaerunt  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">querunt</span></span> lumen, dum concursant familia,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">25&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">irae furentis impetum non sustinens</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">26&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ad lectum accedit, temtat in tenebris caput.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">27&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ut sentit tonsum, gladio pectus transfigit,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">28&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nihil <span class="fp-correction" title="in respiciendum  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">respiciens dum</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="respiciens dum  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">in respiciendum</span></span> dolorem vindicet.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">29&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Lucerna adlata, simul adspexit filium</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">30&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="sanctamquae  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">sanctamque</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="sanctamque  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">sanctamquae</span></span> uxorem dormientem cubiculo</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">31&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">sopita primo <span class="fp-correction" title="que  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">quae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">que</span></span> nihil <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n102/mode/1up">p.39</a>]</span> somno senserat,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">32&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">repraesentavit in se poenam facinoris</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">33&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et ferro incubuit quod credulitas strinxerat.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">34&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Accusatores postularunt mulierem</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">35&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">romamque pertraxerunt ad centumviros.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">36&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Maligna insontem deprimit suspicio,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">37&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quod bona possideat. Stant patroni fortiter</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">38&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">causam tuentes innocentis feminae.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">39&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Alors les juges, que l'obscurité de cette affaire embarrassait,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">40&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">prièrent Auguste d'éclairer,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">41&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">dans ce jugement, leur conscience.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">42&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ce prince, dissipant les ténèbres de la calomnie</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">43&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et découvrant la source de la vérité, prononça cette sentence&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">44&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Que l'affranchi, cause de tant de malheurs, en subisse le châtiment.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">45&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Quant à cette femme privée de son fils et de son mari,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">46&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">je la crois plus à plaindre qu'à punir.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">47&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Si ce père infortuné avait approfondi d'aussi fausses accusations,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">48&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et adroitement cherché à découvrir l'imposture,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">49&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il n'aurait point, par ce crime affreux,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">50&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">détruit entièrement sa famille.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">39&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">A divo Augusto tunc petiere judices</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">40&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ut adjuvaret jurisjurandi fidem,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">41&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quod ipsos error implicuisset criminis.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">42&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Qui postquam tenebras <span class="fp-correction" title="distulit  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">dispulit</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="dispulit  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">distulit</span></span> calumniae</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">43&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">certumque fontem veritatis repperit&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">44&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Luat, inquit, poenas causa libertus mali ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">45&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">namque orbam nato simul et privatam viro</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">46&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">miserandam potius quam damnandam existimo.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">47&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Quodsi damnanda perscrutatus crimina</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">48&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">paterfamiliae esset, si mendacium</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">49&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">subtiliter limasset, a radicibus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">50&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">non evertisset scelere funesto domum.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">51&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ne fermez point vos oreilles, mais ne croyez pas trop vite ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">52&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">souvent ceux-là sont coupables, qu'on soupçonne le moins,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">53&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">tandis que la calomnie attaque les innocents.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">54&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Cet exemple peut avertir les personnes trop simples,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">55&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">de ne point juger d'après l'opinion d'autrui ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">56&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">car l'ambition divise les mortels et ne leur laisse écouter</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">57&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">que leur haine ou leur amour.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">58&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">On ne connaît un homme qu'après l'avoir étudié par soi-même.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">51&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Nihil spernat auris, nec tamen credat statim,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">52&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quandoquidem et <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n103/mode/1up">p.40</a>]</span> illi peccant, quos minime putes,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">53&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et qui non peccant, inpugnantur fraudibus.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">54&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Hoc ammonere simplices etiam potest,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">55&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">opinione alterius ne <span class="fp-correction" title="quis  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">quid</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quid  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">quis</span></span> <span class="fp-correction" title="ponderet  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">ponderent</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="ponderent  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">ponderet</span></span> ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">56&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ambitio namque dissidens mortalium</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">57&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">aut gratiae subscribit aut odio suo.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">58&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Erit ille notus, quem per te cognoveris.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">59&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">J'ai traité ce sujet plus longuement</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">60&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">parce que plusieurs de mes lecteurs se sont plaints de ma brièveté.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">59&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Haec exsecutus sum propterea pluribus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">60&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">brevitate nimia quoniam quosdam offendimus.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/socrate-et-ses-amis.html">Fable précédente</a></div></td>
<td class="fp-right"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/leunuque-et-le-mechant.html">Fable suivante</a></div></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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